Every eight minutes, someone in America died of a drug overdose last year.
Jack Dorsey told The Post that he is experimenting with features that would promote alternative viewpoints in Twitter’s timeline to address misinformation and reduce “echo chambers.”
After an internal investigation found that the Federal Communications Commission misled the public by wrongly claiming it suffered a cyberattack last year, House Democrats are demanding answers from Chairman Ajit Pai.
Analysis
How the economy is objectively faring is perceived mostly subjectively.
Trump tweeted that his tariffs are leading to new trade deals, but he has failed to finalize any trade details yet. He got close with South Korea in March, but even that agreement is stalled.
An Uber vehicle is seen on the streets of New York City. (REX/Shutterstock)
Uber is bringing in more money than in years past, thanks to expansion into businesses like Uber Eats and bikeshare service Jump, but not enough to make its second quarter profitable.
With barbed tweets from U.S. officials and caustic retorts from Turkey, the argument has devolved over the past week into a budding trade war. It has battered Turkey’s vulnerable economy, pushed the lira to record lows and forced Turkish citizens — along with millions of refugees who live in the country — to shoulder the consequences.
An analysis by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, EPA experts said, used faulty assumptions.
President Trump’s economics team is apologizing after press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrongly stated that Trump has created three times as many jobs for black workers as president Barack Obama did.
- Analysis
Omarosa Maginault Newman's recordings in the White House raise questions for workers and their bosses. As one lawyer notes: “With the iPhone, everybody has a tape recorder in their pocket at all time.”
The Pentagon is already working on technology designed to fight a war in space: rockets that could launch daily; missiles that would fly at five miles per second; satellites the size of shoe boxes; and robots that could fix them in orbit.
Mayor Joseph Curtatone made a sobering declaration: “I will never drink Sam Adam's beer again!”
The jump-scare ad was apparently so startling to many who've seen it that their complaints reached YouTube, which decided to take it down.
Women can use Natural Cycles from their smartphones. But even among those who used it perfectly, 1.8 percent got pregnant.
HZ, a Rockville-based advertising agency with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to be bought by Burson, Cohn and Wolfe, a New York-based division of the global ad agency WPP.
A quartet of astronauts that have been assigned to Space X visit the floor of the rocket company.
- Analysis
After a strong run, the female-led summer comedy is going, well, the way of the male-led summer comedy
The board of the electric car company formed a three-person panel to consider a deal, the company said Tuesday.
In a recent survey asking what the most anticipated smartphone launch of the year was, “None” came in third.
Stock market losses spread from Asia to North America and Europe.
That is a solid increase from 2017, but the robust growth may not last, analysts say.
Some merciful participants said they felt sorry for Nao and his fear of the void.
Major console makers are rolling in dough, but also talking about what happens when the console disappears altogether.
Fax machines may present a vulnerability in organizations' networks that allows hackers to infiltrate via devices that are connected to both phone lines and the Internet, according to a report from Israel-based security company Check Point.
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